Female Engineer Statue Proposed

3/15/2014

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News-Gazette (March 15) -- Sakshi Srivastava, a University of Illinois electrical and computer engineering student, has “created an online petition and helped develop resolutions that the Illinois Student Senate and Academic Senate have supported” calling for the installation a statue of a female engineer on campus. Originally, Srivastava said the “idea was for a statue to be erected near the new Electrical and Computer Engineering Building” currently under construction. However, Srivastava said she is open “a location anywhere on the engineering campus.” Also: ASEE FirstBell (March 17).


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This story was published March 15, 2014.